A short Saturday digest for this weekend, featuring a review on dry habitat bacteria published on Nature Reviews Microbiology and an interesting piece on how knowledge of Systems Biology can aid in biochemical production challenges.
General microbiome
Review: Xerotolerant bacteria: surviving through a dry spell
Pedro H. Lebre – Nature Reviews Microbiology
Human gut microbiome
Review: Targeting the Microbiome in Heart Failure
Allyson Zabell, W.H. Wilson Tang – Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine
Review: Gut microbiota: Neonatal gut microbiota induces lung immunity against pneumonia
Sabrina Tamburini & Jose C. Clemente – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Temporal dynamics of the gut microbiota in people sharing a confined environment, a 520-day ground-based space simulation, MARS500
Silvia Turroni – Microbiome
Review: Role of the small intestine, colon and microbiota in determining the metabolic fate of polyphenols
Gary Williamson & Michael N. Clifford – Biochemical Pharmacology
Microbial diseases
Review: Pathogenic Mechanisms of Cryptosporidium and Giardia
Gabriela Certad – Trends in Parasitology
Animal microbiome
Genome Reduction and Microbe-Host Interactions Drive Adaptation of a Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacterium Associated with a Cold Seep Sponge
Ren-Mao Tian – mSystems
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Intercropping maize and common bean enhances microbial carbon and nitrogen availability in low phosphorus soil under Mediterranean conditions
Mourad Latati – European Journal of Soil Biology
Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Tolerance of Some Indigenous Bacteria Isolated From Petroleum Contaminated Soil
Jai Godheja – International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences
Water, estuarine and marine microbiome
Sediment depth and habitat as predictors of the diversity and composition of sediment bacterial communities in an inter-tidal estuarine environment
Daniel F. R. Cleary – Marine Ecology
Metagenomic and Culture-Dependent Analysis of the Bacterial Diversity of a Hot Spring Reservoir as a Function of the Seasonal Variation
B. A. Kikani – International Journal of Environmental Research
Space and extremophile microbiome
Stratosphere Conditions Inactivate Bacterial Endospores from a Mars Spacecraft Assembly Facility
Christina L. Khodadad – Astrobiology
Built environment
Short-term Effects of Great Cormorant Droppings on Water Quality and Microbial Community of an Artificial Agricultural Reservoir
Il Han – Journal of Environmental Quality
Microbial biotechnology
Effect of bioaugmentation by cellulolytic bacteria enriched from sheep rumen on methane production from wheat straw
E. Gozde Ozbayram – Anaerobe
Systems biology solutions for biochemical production challenges
Anne Sofie Lærke Hansen – Current Opinion in Biotechnology
General microbiology
The Pangenome of the genus Clostridium
Zulema Udaondo – Environmental Microbiology
